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Plunder by Max Hastings #literature not the people of DistrictDATE OF RELEASE: 24 SEPT 2026 The last weeks of World War II on the Western Front in Europe witnessed extraordinary scenes of heroism, horror, melodrama and pathos. In Plunder, Max Hastings presents a cast of fascinating people British, American and German, in a series of great events in which some distinguished themselves through wonderful deeds, others through the basest crimes. The book takes its title from Montgomerys Operation Plunder, the 23